Bitcoin Resources
A curated list of Bitcoin Resources (mostly technical) that I find interesting. Based off of Will Clark’s list.
Technical
- Bitcoin Optech
- Bitcoin StackExchange
- From scratch tour of bitcoin in python (Karpathy)
- Bitcoin script 101 (with BTCDeb)
- Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw bitcoin protocol
- Tim Ruffing’s upgrade path to post-quantum
- Taproot is coming. What is it and how will it benefit us
- Using BDK to create BIP157 SPV wallet (aka Neutrino)
- Soft fork activation (optech)
- Timelocks in a nutshell
- SPV node assumptions (pwuille)
- Understanding the block header
- Why is it taking 20 minutes to mine this block? (memoryless mining)
- Compact Block Filters Deep Dive (BIP158)
- Schnorr Basics
- learn me a bitcoin
- mempool.observer
- transactionfee.info - Really cool Bitcoin stats and pretty graphs!
- Spacechains
- DLCs at Advancing Bitcoin 2022
- Vaults paper
- Ordinal theory
- Nodl
- Bitcoin.design
- Bitcoin Search
- Bitcoin Stackexchange
- bolt11.org
- bolt12.org
- Codex32
- Ark (Layer 2)
- Bitcoiner.Guide
- Proposal for a new mempool design
- RFC - Payment pools and co-ownership of coinbase reward
- Burak’s Blog
- James O’Beirne OP_VAULT Twitter thread
- Bitcoin Rollups
- Silent Payments (Reusable Addresses)
Economics
- Why Bitcoin (Wiz)
- Cryptoeconomics (libbitcoin)
- ASICs and decentralization (Poelstra)
- Shelling out: The origins of money
- Bitcoin for safety
- Check your financial privilege
- Financial freedom in the post-cash world
- Fighting monetary colonialism
- The humanitarian case for Bitcoin
Energy
- End the FUD
- The hidden costs of the petrodollar
- Nic Carter archive
- Jack Dorsey says Bitcoin can make the world greener. Is he right?
- Bitcoin does not waste energy
- Bitcoin is not backed by nothing